The author is a poet, counsellor, and occasional scholar-in-residence. Musings on everything from advaita ("non-dualism") to sustainable living, interspersed with poems. Thanks to Zvi Jaspan of Kibbutz Tzora for the name for this blog.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Crime and nourishment

Has anyone tried making yoghurt, cheese,
ice-cream, quiches, cream, butter and custard using human breast milk?
For those of us who find it extremely difficult to kick the dairy habit,
because it is associated with nurture and satiation, human breast milk
might be the ideal solution. It can be produced without cruelty, and is
specifically designed for human beings (as opposed to cow's milk, which
is not.)

Establishing a market for human milk might help mothers
both in the developing and over developed world create an income stream
( forgive the association) for themselves at a time when they cannot do
other work. While at first the idea may seem as strange as a baby
sucking on her mother's breast instead of being fed formula from a
bottle, a little pause for reflection can take the edge of the newness
of the concept.

There are
approximately 2 billion women of reproductive age on the planet. If only
a small percentage of these are lactating at any one time, and if only a
small percentage of that number were willing to sell some of their
milk, their could still be enough for Jews to have their cheesecake at
Shavuot, Christians to have their eggnog at Christmas, Hindus to have
their Gulub Jamuns at Holli, Bhuddists to have their erzatz yak butter
upon re entering the fifth Bardo, and Moslems to have their Kunafa,
Atayef and Luqaimat during Ramadan.

The reduction in methane
emissions is likely to be significant, as well as the ending of the
peverse treatment of cows and their offspring in contemporary factory
farms. In addition there may be some immune system benefits, especially for younger consumers. I see it as a win win solution, and giving new meaning to the
phrase "the milk of human kindness."

"Everyone's got to serve someone"

a "hogeh deyot" - Hebrew for someone who thinks a lot about things that are not directly related to the daily round. I worships two G?ds, that are probably one and the same - creativity and balance. Sat. Chit. Ananda. Gila Rina Ditza ve Chedva. Adoshem Hu Elokim. Veshal-om shanti shanti.